Friday, November 16, 2007

There has been so much to post this week, I haven't had time to get on my soapbox about Michigan fans giving our team - and Lloyd Carr if this is truly his last game in A2 - a home field advantage in The Big House this weekend.

But goddamnit, do it!

We've received numerous emails about a stadium-wide student-organized Maize Out Saturday. While I have to say a) I hate the term "Maize Out" since it makes no sense (as opposed to Penn State's "White Out" or Iowa's "Black Out and b) nobody over the age of 10 owns any yellow outer-wear, please do your best to comply. But most of all...

MAKE SOME FUCKING NOISE! Shove the keys up the ass of the person next to you if they pull them out!

And being loud doesn't mean being a dick, it simply means cheering your ass off. Treat our Ohio State visitors with respect inside and outside the stadium. I urge anybody who sees any ass behavior by our fans to call them on it. I will. But for the love of Schembechler, during the game, let them hear you, not your fucking house keys! And not just on 3rd and short in the 4th quarter. ALL DAMN GAME!

There is also a pep rally in the Diag scheduled for 6:30 Friday. Be there. Take pictures and...

I think the pep ralley starts at 3 and goes on until 6pm in the Diag, not starting at 6:30. This is what the MGOBLOG mailbag post said at least, sounds like one of the kids coordinating it sent that information, so I'd say 3pm is the start time.

Yeah... when Switzerland was playing Turkey to qualify for the World Cup a few years back... they had the game on TV here. Turkish fans never were quiet and there was a banner hanging from the stadium that said, "Welcome to Hell!"

Like Yost and Benny stress on this side, you don't need to be a dick to the opposing fans... just loud as hell!

Also... if Michigan gets behind early in the game, please people, don't give up on the yelling... in fact, yell more! Nothing gets a team excited than to hear its fans screaming even though they are down.

I say... put the keys away... take the gloves off (assuming it's cold) and clap and scream for the duration of the game.

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Just a question, you say "and I'll do key plays anyway."

How many key plays are there in a game? I would argue that every third down is not a key play (but normally, that is when the keys show up). I would say in the course of the game, there are less than 5 key plays and normally they happen when Michigan is on offense.

I will be there and I will NOT be quiet and the season ticket holders around me will be annoyed and I don't care! The best way to be loud and noisy is when you are standing up....which I will also do for the majority of the game......and they will also be annoyed and I DON'T CARE! (I will be wearing Maize)

Also there is time conflicts about the pep rally, even in the emails straight from campus. The pep rally in the diag is scheduled to start at 3pm and last until 6pm. This in a email from Yost (not our Yost, but the student president). The school president and Martin in another email referenced the letter from Yost, but did not give the time. In an email this morning from the athletic department, it says the pep rally at the diag starts at 6:30, listing a few of the things that the 3 pm pep rally mentions. This of course is confusing. I am going with the assumption that it indeed starts at 3pm. I am planning to attend and will take my camera. (even though I am an old lady, it sounds way too fun to miss) GO BLUE! BEAT THE BUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There's a Facebook group that calls for people to put coins in a water bottle and use that during the 'key plays', that would actually make it loud, you know, so the opposing team isn't nice and comfortable when they run a play on third down...

The key play totally sucks, though its the only time during the game I can listen to my voicemail.

The point is, put some coins in a bottle and you'll make ten times the noise.

it will be louder than normal, but still not loud enough. there are too many people who go to the games and don't cheer. they clap, sure, but scream the whole game? fuck no. i have been to five games and the loudest was michigan state in 2002. and even then, it was not THAT loud. why can't our fans (many of them, not all, since there are crazy UM fans who cheer like crazy) be like SEC fans? i simply don't get it.

A 17-year-old Blake High School football player cut a Magruder High School player Friday night as players of the dueling teams were shaking hands during the postgame lineup, Montgomery County police said.

The Blake student pulled a small folding knife from his pocket, cut the hand of a rival team member and attempted to cut a second player, said Cpl. Jimmy Robinson, a police spokesman.

"There's no talk of an explicit motive," Robinson said. "The implied motive here is team rivalry." Magruder had won the game.

The Blake student was charged as a juvenile with second-degree assault and carrying a weapon in school, Robinson said. He was released to the custody of his parents after being processed by police.

Re: the "Maize Out":I can't wait for next week when OSU fans get ahold of some aerial pictures of the big house and photoshop it side-by-side with a picture of a post-piss toilet. Same shape, same color, vintage toilet humor.

Yost I want to see that picture on this site next week, you know it's gonna happen.

I've always wondered why we don't just wear blue. Have a blue-out. Everyone has a blue shirt. You can buy two new Hanes single pocket tees in navy for like $8. Who the f owns a maize shirt outside of students? Just confounds me.

Anyone who's in A2 and not headed to the game (or even if you are)- we'll have a tv set set up on the golf course and we're starting whenever they let us in. 7:30 am i think. Everyone's welcome, just byob.

Trying to think of a way to let you know it's us- maybe i'll put out an "Unnofficial MZONE tailgate" sign, or something. any ideas? Or maybe i'll just light a buckeye on fire. That's good sportsmanship, right?

After all....

Build a Buckeye a fire and you keep him warm for a night.Light a Buckeye on fire and you keep him warm for the rest of his life.

Speaking of screaming and making noise! Check out nikefootball.com and scream for Michigan - in this head to head battle for support against Ohio State. Help me out - the score is really close right now!

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